Cloth

2003-39-53

From: China

Curatorial Section: Asian

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Object Number 2003-39-53
Current Location Collections Storage
Culture Chinese
Provenience China
Date Made pre-1895
Section Asian
Materials Cotton
Technique Block Printed | Resist Dyed
Iconography Butterfly
Description

A bolt of cloth woven of cotton, indigo resist dyed, block printed in line of butterflies in an all over pattern of diamond-like designs ending with a plain blue border.

Width 43.18 cm
Credit Line Gift of the Philadelphia Commercial Museum (also known as the Philadelphia Civic Center Museum), Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, 2003
Other Number 1895.1.357 - Other Number

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